Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!news.astraweb.com!border5.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail From: Ben Finney Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: a python license problem? References: <2f6ddde4-cff2-4005-bda5-b251e9822aff@googlegroups.com> X-Public-Key-ID: 0xAC128405 X-Public-Key-Fingerprint: 517C F14B B2F3 98B0 CB35 4855 B8B2 4C06 AC12 8405 X-Public-Key-URL: http://www.benfinney.id.au/contact/bfinney-pubkey.asc X-Post-From: Ben Finney Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 02:03:54 +1000 Message-ID: <87vcfkpmvp.fsf@benfinney.id.au> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:HOvvttiiMXKNmPs0klVPK37/sCE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 23 Organization: Unlimited download news at news.astraweb.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 146b8fc8.news.astraweb.com X-Trace: DXC=UQ=bU7WHbh?R@Y?`:@TCo5L?0kYOcDh@:SBc;\8ijUd;[oHR^@KYj>4UGD@iN[Hd??O2n;XVhW2d1 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:28890 Jayden writes: > Python is under GPL compatible. If I develop a python code If you write new code, without deriving your work from the code of Python itself, then the license of the Python code cannot affect what you many do with what you wrote – because the copyright on Python does not affect works not derived from it. Despite the wishes of copyright maximalists (and the PSF are not copyright maximalists, to my knowledge), there are still limits to the scope of copyright. > If python is under GPL, is the answer different? Thanks a lot!! Python is not under GPL. But unless you are deriving a work from Python and distributing the result, that doesn't alter the answer. -- \ “I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. | `\ There's a knob called ‘brightness’ but it doesn't work.” | _o__) —Eugene P. Gallagher | Ben Finney